Main Characters:Stripe and yellow caterpillar and other caterpillars Setting:Tree, caterpillar pillar and the worldThe story started when Stripe, the main character, hatches from an egg. He begins his life by eating the leaf he was born on. He realizes that there must be "more" to life than just eating leaves. He senses there must be a way to get up into the sky. He searches for a way and finds himself at the base of a pillar made up of caterpillars. They are all struggling to get up into the sky as well. Here he meets Yellow who also wants to get up into the sky by climbing to the top of the pillar. But she feels bad about what must be done to achieve this goal. You have to literally step on and climb over all the other caterpillars who are also trying to reach the top of the pillar. The two of them eventually decide to stop climbing and go back down the pillar. They live together for awhile. But Stripe's curiosity and unrest overcome him and he decides that he must get to the top of the pillar. Stripe says good-bye to Yellow. He focuses, adapts, and drives to reach the top, and eventually he succeeds at being on the top of the caterpillar pillar. This results in disillusionment, as he takes in a vast vista of other caterpillar pillars. Is this all there is at the top? He has not really gotten in to the sky. He just has a view of other caterpillars struggling to reach the top of their respective caterpillar pillars. Yellow, however, has followed her instincts, continues to eat and then spins a cocoon. She eventually emerges from the cocoon transformed into a butterfly and flies into the sky effortlessly. She has found the real answer to the feeling that there must be more to life than eating leaves, and who caterpillars really are. She is waiting for the disillusioned Stripe as he descends the pillar and eventually reaches the ground again. She shows Stripe her empty cocoon, and he eventually realizes what he...

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...and that’s why now I want to continue with the other points of my Bucket List.
I think the only obstacle we have is our minds because everything depends on us, everything is in our hands.
6. If you haven’t created a bucket list for your life, do so now. Think of not only the places you want to go, but the people with whom you want to reconnect or meet.
Yes I have, and it starts like this:
Meet new people with other cultures
Be part of a volunteer to help abused animals
Find someone who enjoy life with me
Have one daughter
Live in India to know more about its culture
Stay some time alone in a peaceful place
Be happy the most I can every day.
I made my Bucket List with only seven points because seven is my lucky number and I hope to accomplish all of them with my family help and others by my count.
Creating a Bucket list will help people to think about their future and what they want for them and for the whole people who is around us.
7. Has your life brought joy to others? In what ways?
I think yes, because in everything I do, I look after how it will help me to improve my own self and also if the action or thoughts won’t damage the rest of the people.
Most of the time I have brought joy to others smiling or having fun. Instead of material things or money it’s better to spend your time with other people.
8. What do you believe is the sum of a person’s life?
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...1.) How do you interpret the story of the caterpillar pillars and the transformation of Yellow and Stripe into butterflies?
The story of Yellow and Stripe in Hope for the Flowers is analogous to our own Human search for purpose in life. Human life seems as open as life would seem to a caterpillar, a parallel that the story draws on to create a critical dialogue in our own mind as we read the text, raising such questions as: What is my purpose in life? Is whatever I am doing now only just “climbing the pillar?” Is our intended goal as arbitrary as Stripe had found his own out to be?
In the story, Stripe is born as a young caterpillar and begins to eat everything around him. Before long, he questions his purpose in life, thinking “There must be more to life than just eating and getting bigger.” As humans, we sometimes have similar thoughts. Deep reflection upon one’s own purpose can cause us to question everything we do as humans. We may believe our purpose is decided by a God, decided by the greater good, that we decide our own purpose, or perhaps even that we do not have a purpose at all.
Stripe is pondering such concepts stumbles upon a mass of other caterpillars that seemed to be purpose-driven. The other caterpillars were moving toward a type of caterpillar-pillar, in which many of the animals had formed a living mass that grew upwards, reaching into the clouds and out of sight. Stripe decides to follow the rest of these creatures,...

...I. Hope for the Flowers
This Easter I journeyed to San Diego to join the vigorous youthful dance troupe of EVEOKE for the opening of their spirited expression of Hope in dance. To see the dedication and energy of these women, so intent to express the important issues of our times, was truly an inspiration. I think some of the introductory words in the dance program are worthy of repeating here.”
II. Trina Paulus
Trina Paulus is very ugly, and she look like she is on crack, thats why lil wyane dumped her
III. Characterization
1. Stripped - catterpillar
2. Yellow
IV. Summary
Once upon a time there was a striped caterpillar who burst from an egg. His name is stripe, he ate all the leaves until he became bigger and bigger. One day he saw caterpillars crawling in one direction and he joined them. He saw pillar of caterpillar and he tried to reach the top.. While he was reaching the top, he was kicked and pushed. He saw a yellow caterpillar named Yellow. Yellow and Stripe came down because they think it's not important what ever is up there at the caterpillar pillar. They ate leaves and slept together and they become lovers. One day Stripe want to reach the top of the pillar again but Yellow refuse to come with him so Stripe climbed again. Yellow cried and saw a grey haired caterpillar hanging upside down on a branch shocked her. The caterpillar became a butterfly and said to Yellow: ''You can be a butterfly and have beautiful...

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For me this book is made with purpose, not just stating the life of a caterpillar who wanted to find meaning about life but it also reflects on the life challenges. We are only contented of what we have and sometimes we say to ourselves everything we own and have are many things that we achieved in life and we don’t aim for more because of fears of disappointment in all our struggles in life. We don’t attempt to move on and we don’t try to get things to prove that we can make it at the end.
Trina Paulus offers her full effort in writing the story, the book manifest how Trina create this story with passion. She consumes her precious time just making this kind of tale, emotionally; this story is dedicated to those people who experience difficult problems. As far as I can understand, Trina experience also this kind of problem that she desires to accomplish something but when things are harder in the middle she get discouraged, she gives up all the things that she started good because she lose her trust and confidence.
There are times that I felt over-passionate in myself that I want to succeed on something, I sense courageous and jubilant but then when things went wrong that causes me to discourage myself. But because I have my goals and I trust in the Lord that He has a purpose why is this happening to me. And I always believe in myself that I could go beyond my problems.
We can be butterflies! Being a butterfly is accomplishing your dreams that you are yearning...

...some of the questions that came up to my mind after reading this uplifting book, but I was able to realize as well the perks of seeing both sides of the story. It is full of values that is suited for all ages.
Making your own convictions is one of the most dominant lesson that was depicted by the story. Stripe and Yellow represents us .Like Stripe, we are prone in making decisions in order to join the bandwagon though we are not fully aware of the consequences we might face and it may contradict our precepts and regret it at the end. Yellow on the other hand,was able to make her own convictions and was able to realize her full potential by searching for her own self-fulfillment as a butterfly.
Hope, a word that is commonly referred as a desire accompanied by an expectation, but for me , it is something that links our dreams with reality. It is seemed to be as the primary theme of the book. It motivates us to realize our full potential ,we must not be afraid to stand by our own precepts and search for our own fulfilment because each person is unique and we all have differences, there are just others who were brave enough to accept another path in each others’ journeys and find their own fulfilment much earlier than other and in order to inspire others as well .It also showed that we should be humble enough to realize that God has a better plans for us. The book shows that through the struggles we may face, we...

...become who we really are, we must risk the only life we knew because
if we did, we can make a new life; a life that is really meant for us.
Changing may look like dying but the truth is we will still live. Its not easy to risk, it is not
easy to change. But what’s more important is that we go for our dreams; we choose love
over the pull for money.
Crawling to the top is merely like the only way we could do but it is not. The top is just
nothing but a material thing that confuses us to do something more. It is merely a race
that most of humans do. We crawl, and we get tired. We even do stepped on others just
to reach the top and once we got there, we will just question ourselves if it is worth
climbing for.
There is hope for whatever we want in life. “Live each day as a wonderful new adventure
in life”.
We may not see it but there is something inside all of us. All we have to do is to look
inside ourselves. We can do even better than we think.
Inside a cocoon may be dark, but it is life. In life, getting the real purpose will never be an
ease. There are obstacles to pass through. But what a simple dim in our life would do if
the return is more than on what we expect.
The change may be slow and might feel that nothing is happening but the change is
already becoming. We will just be surprised one day that we can do the things we thought
that we cant.
So therefore, we don’t need to question about our purpose because the...

...’’Hope for the flowers’’ is a book that I found at a friend’s place. This book was part of a course on entrepreneurship that he underwent at business school. Hardbound with bright
coloured cover and inside pages, the book looks like one created for kindergarten kids. Something that prompted me to give him a quizzical look. His reply was very simple - ’’Just read it’’. I was still sceptical, but considering the fact that the course itself was taken by a pretty successful entrepreneur I gave it the benefit of doubt - after all it was hardly 15 minutes worth of reading and - aren’t we all just kids in adult make up ??
It is the story of two caterpillars - the not so good looking, strong, ambitious, go getting, very male Stripe and the more beautiful, intuitive, perceptive, lovely Yellow. How do I know that she is lovely? - its the illustrations silly.
Like all caterpillars do, Stripe bursts out of his tiny egg to come out into a bright and sunny world. He is hungry and wastes no time to begin eating the leaf that he was born on. And then another and another and another until he feels ’’that there must be more to life than just eating and getting bigger’’. Stripe then goes on a ’’fascinating discovery of life’’ that leads him to what he believes is the way to the TOP.It is not an easy path, one must ’’push, shove and trample to go up’’ and it is in this path upwards that he meet Yellow.
Yellow is already on the way up. She has convinced...